Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Weddar Report: IPhone App Is Twitter For Weather

Weddar is a socially powered continue app is to iPhone that gives you more personalized, localized reports than you obtain from the authorized services. That might sound dumb, but we have been perplexing it given final week and it creates a startling amount of sense.

Think of Weddar, that launches today, as something similar to FourSquare or Instagram, usually for weather. The app automatically geolocates you, and you inform the stream continue with a simple, easy interface. This not usually gives exceedingly localized continue reports: It moreover gives you a more biased perspective than you obtain from the numbers.

"In Weddar, someone, someplace in Montjuc [a mountain in Barcelona] will discuss it you that the continue ‘Feels perfect'", says Weddar co-founder Ricardo Fonseca, "Another a nearby the beach will discuss it you that ‘Feels great but windy,' because continue conditions unequivocally are not similar in the same city."

You can moreover solicit a inform from someplace far away. Tap and grip on the chart someplace other than your stream place and the app will contention a continue request. Another contributor in that place will see it and give a report. So you could examine if the beach up the coastline is as well breezy before you head off is to day. Reports discolor in opacity as they obtain older, before disintegrating completely.

But because would you bother? Because Weddar turns stating in to a competition. You consequence points for "checking in" and then you are charted on a personality board. This now appears to uncover usually the tip 50 reporters worldwide (I'm now number 26!), so a few finer-grained groups might be necessary.

You can moreover share your reports on Twitter and Facebook. Next time you wish to Tweet about all the sleet that's dropping on your segment of town, you can do something helpful instead of just whining.

Right now the Weddar world is frugally populated, but will clearly obtain more utilitarian as more people join. Best of all, it's free, and you can go squeeze it from the App store correct now. An Android chronicle is on its way.

Weddar product page [Thanks, Ricardo!]

Weddar app on iTunes.

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